关键词: 外商投资法, 开放, 对外合作, 负面清单, 增储上产

Abstract: “Foreign Investment Law” specifies the pre-entry national treatment and the negative list for the admission of foreign investment, which provides a good legal environment for foreign investment. “Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2019 Edition) ” lifts bans on oil and natural gas exploration and development which are previously limited to joint venture and cooperative with Chinese national companies. Direct involvement of foreign investment into China’s oil and gas exploration and development will exert a far-reaching impact on the nation’s foreign oil and gas cooperation. Meanwhile, “Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Exploitation of Onshore Petroleum Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises” and “Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Exploitation of Offshore Petroleum Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises” are still the dominant laws on China’s foreign oil and gas cooperation, but these two documents call for further perfection. “Foreign Investment Law” and the negative list open the upstream sector to foreign investors, meeting the demands for devoluting of administrative power. It makes clear specifications on protection of the foreign party’s intellectual properties. Under the background of competitive bidding of oil and gas mineral rights, perfection of the legal system for foreign cooperation is helpful to attract and utilize the foreign investment and increases oil and gas reserves and production to secure the nation’s energy supply.